Thanks D. Mathews for the headsup and link.

That lecture series by Peter Ward is excellent. I watched the first two last night (stayed up waaaaay past my bedtime ;) and look forward to watching the last one tonight.

There were several other interesting lectures in that list that I look forward to hearing - e.g. "Department of Physics Steven Chu, Director of Lawrence Berkeley Labs: "The energy problem: our current choices and future hopes."

And try not to feel too badly about the possible fate of our species. Remember that jesus guy said something like, "forgive them father, for they know not what they do." Being the stupid aminalz we are I think we could switch out the "father" part and replace it with "Mother Nature" and apply it to our current situation.

Unfortunately I think that deaf, dumb and blind Girl also says, "ignorance of The Lawz is No Excuse."

D.Matt,
ditto,
thanks for the link
I couldn't stay awake thru the whole 1st lecture (1.5 hours) --but it's fascinating stuff. Here's to our current mammalian epoch.